Type-Moon Assassination Fist 36
by TINY FAN FICTIONType-Moon Assassination Fist 36
Edited by: Tiny Fan Fiction
Chapter 36 Painful Red
The basement of Temple (Aozaki Touko’s workshop).
The source of the anomaly is inside.
The abandoned, half-finished commercial building was being remodeled. The first floor looked like a rundown workshop, with various tools and items piled up haphazardly.
There were several shelves inside, displaying various items for sale. On the third shelf of one of them, a row of glasses were placed.
Kuzuki’s muscles slightly relaxed, but he was still ready to spring into action at any moment.
Since it’s a shop, it should value peace and harmony, so it shouldn’t attack others recklessly.
[Clearly a shop from the mysterious side, but would they do business with someone who isn’t a Magus?] Kuzuki walked into the shop, and there was no one inside.
Mystic Eye Killer.
In front of the glasses on the shelf, there was a small tag with the item’s name and price.
5,000,000 yen, with six zeros at the end. It was something Kuzuki couldn’t afford.
Regretfully, he put the glasses back.
“That’s the most expensive one, but there are cheaper ones,” said a tall woman with orange-red hair, delicate features, and wearing glasses, a cigarette between her lips. She was dressed in a business outfit, with a slim, white neck, and perfect curves on her chest. Below, her long legs were wrapped in a skirt, revealing smooth, delicate calves, and she wore orange women’s leather shoes.
While scanning her appearance, his eyes also provided additional information.
Body quality average, combat ability +5, posture and movements untrained, combat skills are zero. Adult female, obvious vital points, combat ability with no enhancements. Considering psychological factors and other aspects, the overall combat ability is below 10, with zero coercion.
This was the information from his eyes, but Kuzuki had his own judgment.
The person was clearly from the mysterious side, most likely a Magus, with means and abilities that Kuzuki couldn’t understand, and coercion couldn’t be assessed. He had to treat her as a major threat and stay cautious.
Aozaki Touko took a drag of her cigarette, leaning against the doorframe. “If it’s just for cover, this pair of glasses will do.”
She handed Kuzuki a pair of rectangular, non-prescription glasses.
“The service life is one year. After one year, you’ll need to replace them.”
Kuzuki took the glasses and put them on.
It felt cool and relaxing, like after doing eye exercises, with a refreshing flower-scented lotion applied around his eyes.
Staring at a person no longer automatically initiated a combat ability assessment, nor would it display ways to kill the target.
He didn’t take them off but instead looked directly at Aozaki Touko and asked, “How much for the glasses…”
“Two hundred thousand, no credit.”
Kuzuki could afford it.
The one million yen assassination budget from the Group—Kuzuki hadn’t even spent a fifth of it.
After paying two hundred thousand yen and completing the transaction with Aozaki Touko, Kuzuki didn’t leave immediately.
It was rare to meet a Magus from the mysterious side, and she didn’t seem difficult to talk to, so Kuzuki planned to ask her some common knowledge about the world of mysticism. If possible, he’d pay for the information.
“Are you a Magus?”
Aozaki Touko carefully looked at Kuzuki when she heard the question.
Her expression was indifferent, and even after wearing the Mystic Eye Killer, her eyes remained sharp. Her tall, muscular body stood silently, like a cat.
This gaze and aura…
It seemed familiar…
It was many years ago, a person almost exactly like Kuzuki… Shizuki Soujuurou, someone with complicated feelings for Touko. He ruined her scheme but then let her go. Even now, thinking back, her heart stirred, uncertain whether it was gratitude or resentment.
Leaving that aside, as a crown-level Magus, Touko could clearly sense the Mana hidden within Kuzuki’s body, which didn’t belong to any Magecraft system she was familiar with.
…Central Asia’s Magecraft system.
That was her initial judgment.
Just an unusual customer. Since she wasn’t familiar with the Central Asian Magecraft system, she couldn’t evaluate the strange aspects of Kuzuki’s eyes.
That was all.
However, when Kuzuki spoke, the meaning he conveyed overturned her thoughts.
[He seems like a clueless rookie… But he’s filled with Mana that only a top Magus could possess, and his eyes are not like any Mystic Eyes I know.]
“I guess so…” Aozaki Touko exhaled a puff of smoke and gestured at her eyes. “Are you getting used to the Mystic Eye Killer?”
“It fits my requirements perfectly.”
A brief silence.
Kuzuki broke the silence: “How can I contact you? I mean, if I want to change glasses, should I come here or contact you directly?”
Aozaki Touko handed Kuzuki a business card, with the front reading *Hall of Temple (Aozaki Touko Workshop)*, and the back showing her contact details.
“Just contact me directly, I’ll have a familiar deliver it.”
Aozaki Touko leaned against the table’s edge, propping her right arm with her left, taking a deep drag and exhaling a ring of smoke.
“What do you want to know from me? And what will you exchange for it?”
“‘Common knowledge’ or ‘basics,’ I can exchange them for Martial Arts or money,” Kuzuki said slowly.
“Martial Arts? Like Central Asia’s Martial Arts?” Aozaki Touko was very interested in the Magecraft system of Central Asia, which was excluded from the Mage’s Association.
“No, in some ways, it’s a more advanced skill than Martial Arts.”
Aozaki Touko’s eyes behind her glasses showed a hint of a smile.
Didn’t expect to catch a big fish…
“Alright, I’ll exchange the knowledge you want to know for what you offer,” Aozaki Touko said, not worried that Kuzuki would lie. First, someone like Kuzuki would never lie; second, Aozaki Touko was sure he wouldn’t.
From Aozaki Touko, Kuzuki learned a great deal of knowledge about the mysterious side.
Although the Mage’s Association’s policy was secrecy, hiding knowledge of “mysticism” out of fear of it leaking, and they strictly controlled the spread of Magecraft knowledge…
Of course, Aozaki Touko completely ignored the Mage’s Association’s rules and leaked a lot of knowledge to Kuzuki, an “outsider.”
In the end, Kuzuki handed Aozaki Touko the martial arts manual for *Heavenly Frost Fist (From Feng Yun)*.
At this level of martial arts, without the *Assassination Book* for memory transfer and inheritance, it would take over ten years of training to master this advanced martial art… and that’s assuming there’s talent.
Aozaki Touko was only interested in the Central Asian Magecraft system and wasn’t actually planning to try training in Martial Arts… She had her own path to follow, and this could only be a reference.
“Interesting ideas and techniques…” Aozaki Touko closed the *Heavenly Frost Fist (From Feng Yun)* manual and extended her hand. “It was a pleasant transaction.”
Kuzuki nodded, shook her hand, and vanished as silently as he came.
Aozaki Touko removed her glasses, her demeanor shifting from scholarly and gentle to calm and neutral.
“I forgot to ask his name… but it’s fine, I’ll meet him again…”
ps: At this moment, Aozaki Touko is still under the “sealed orders” of Mage’s Association, having not yet received her crown of titles. Therefore, she refers to herself as merely a Magus.
ps2: In Type-Moon, “Martial Arts” is on the same level or even higher than Magecraft in terms of knowledge.
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